Rosario Fiorello, the popular Sicilian showman and showman, wins the 51st International Political Satire Award Forte dei Marmi. The recognition is given to him as a personality and for the successful radio program he hosted, "VivaRai2", program of the year. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 16 September, at 18pm, at the Capannina di Franceschi, in the well-known Tuscan seaside resort. For the host, 2023 confirms to be a year full of beautiful surprises. Only yesterday, Fiorello received the Rai Radio Award 2023 from the hands of the CEO of Rai Robert Sergio, in the headquarters in via Asiago in Rome, as part of the presentation of the Radio Offer for the 2023/2024 season.
For Fiorello it is the second time
The award ceremony on September 16 will be conducted by Fabrizio Biggio, Florentine actor and presenter, face of Viva Rai2, alongside Fiorello, and half of the comedy duo 'I soliti idioti'. This is the motivation for the International Political Satire Prize awarded to Fiorello: "He had said it to Edmondo Berselli, the historic juror of this prize, and a friend whom we should not forget: «My only qualification is baptism»". It is the second time, after 2017, that Fiorello has been awarded the Prize worth the degree in Political Satire. An absolutely deserved result that, as a boy, he probably never imagined he could achieve. He who managed to finish scientific high school after four failures.
The innovation of VivaRai2
With VivaRai2 Fiorello invented not only a variety show on the street, in via Asiago, but a subversive format. An innovative programme, a show freed from the rigidity of programming because it can be seen at any time on Raiplay, conducted with great ease and the ability to improvise. «Political satire seemed to have evaporated, along with politics – he declared Beppe Cottafavi, director of the award -. But no. It is reborn where you no longer expected it: in newspapers with cartoons that piss off politicians, on the radio with very funny press reviews, in theaters and clubs with stand-up monologues." The mayor of Forte dei Marmi, Bruno Murzi, commented: «Satire represents one of the most authentic forms of freedom and the Forte dei Marmi prize, for fifty-one years, has aimed to protect it, enhance it, and keep it alive».
VIvaRai2 will return in November, this time from the Foro Italico
During yesterday's awards ceremony at the Rai headquarters in via Asiago, Fiorello joked about the controversies that accompanied his program VivaRai2 last year. Controversy raised by neighbors disturbed by the noise of the live broadcast, broadcast in the street. “Many know that I have the daspo and can't easily enter via Asiago – Fiorello told RAI CEO Roberto Sergio –. Just think that since we are no longer here in front, two centers will open, one for meditation and one for yoga so now there will be peace, serenity and tranquility. I will go to another place but I want to dedicate this award to our tenants who have put up with us and I wish them silence and peace, I'm not saying for eternity but in short...". VivaRai2 will resume next November 6th, at 7.15am, but in a new area of Rome, inside the Foro Italico.
(Photo: Satire Festival, VivaRai2, Facebook Pages)
